According to a March 2015 Government Accountability Office, Assessment of Selected Weapons Programs, total costs have increased $457 billion, or nearly 47 percent above their original estimates, with an average schedule delay of more than 29 months, across the 78 programs in the Pentagon's 2014 portfolio. Foreign Affairs Live: Modernizing the Military brought together leading experts and practitioners for a high-level examination of the challenges, misconceptions and opportunities related to finding the best approach to achieving real defense acquisition reform and improving performance of large scale defense acquisition programs. This video provides highlights from the event from Janine Davidson, Michele Flournoy, General Mark Milley, the Honorable Heidi Shyu, and Greg Wenzel

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